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https://www.moviefone.com/2017/09/21/big-brother-19-julie-chen-says-cody-won-afp-by-a-lot-paul-robbed/
[quote]EW also asked Julie about Cody Nickson winning America's Favorite Houseguest/Player. To EW, it was surprising, since Cody was out of the house pretty early -- twice -- and was the first j...

PC is great for overall investing snapshots and cash flow, but their portfolio performance tracking needs work.
Told them I really liked their website but handle my own finances/investing. He said he would remove me from their call list and asked me to give them a call if I ever wanted help. ...

[quote]I used to podcast Culotta and the Prince, then for about a week I tried with Hunt Palmer, but he's very difficult to listen to. So I just stopped. It didn't help that they were knighting so hard for Orgeron either.
[/quote]Hunt would at least attempt some objectivity regarding O. Culotta + T...

I'm referring to bond funds, Total Bond Market Index
Ideally, I would make regular contributions and allocate the new funds with respect to my desired AA.
However, I have limited space in protected accounts (Roth), so once that's filled, I would be making regular contributions that are equiti...

How are you allocating those $10k amounts relative to your AA? My issue is that I often have limited space in my tax-protected accounts--and in turn the amount of bonds I can buy--so if making periodic $10k contributions, I will consistently end up out of alignment by purchasing equities everytime. ...

401k aside, how often do you contribute to your portfolio, and do you rebalance your portfolio at each contribution?
I would prefer to rebalance at 12+ months, but it seems the only way to accomplish this is hold off on contributions until this time.
I prefer this schedule in part because at ...

Stabiler owned restaurant recently opened former Latte e Miele location. Anyone been yet? Supposed to have a similar priced menu to Little Village with a more traditional Italian menu
https://www.businessreport.com/article/new-restaurant-set-open-former-latte-e-miele-location...

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Is there something that does explain the impact of fees?[/quote]Good starting point [link=(https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/investingtruths/investing-truth-about-cost)]LINK[/link]
taking the average of your 4 IRA funds (.83% exp. ratio) vs Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Index Admiral ...

those are all relatively high fees.
[quote]I also have a brokerage account that is invested in BALCX (American Funds). The balance is around $9k. Here are the expenses for this fund:
0.23 Annual mgmg fee
0.15 other
1.00 12b-1
1.38 expense ratio [/quote]You also have an 82% turnover which wil...

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I'm telling you right here that most advisors aren't trying to outperform an index. If they tell you they are then I can see why you would be disappointed... [/quote]http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/display.aspx?sp=62925472&b=60&s=1&p=62893012
American Fund claiming just that...

[quote]This is when companies like Vanguard and other low cost fund companies thrive. Actively Managed funds such as American Funds shine in the down years. For example, when cheap index funds are down -15% with the market a good actively managed fund will be down--call it -9%. So for someone starti...

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It was pretty easily understood that he would
Again, I wanted to see it
[/quote]it never happened. The book even remarks about how Burry never received an apology from the investors he made so much money for. ...